GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Koki Tanaka was born in Tochigi, Japan in 1975, and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. He graduated with an MFA from Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan in 2005 and has participated in residency programs at Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2005-2006) and Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern Switzerland (2007). His work takes shape primarily as video and installation that explores the relationship between objects and actions. His videos record simple gestures performed with ordinary objects—a knife cutting vegetables, beer poured into a glass, the opening of an umbrella—in which seemingly “nothing happens.” Yet, through their repetitive composition and heightened attention to detail, Tanaka’s videos compel us to take notice of the mundane phenomena of daily life. Latent patterns and geometrical forms emerge out of Tanaka’s work, and otherwise ordinary objects are transformed, providing an epiphany of sorts from moments of everyday life.
Adapted from
Gabriel Ritter, DMA unpublished material.
NOTES
DMA unpublished material = Gabriel Ritter, "Koki Tanaka Justification." File on TAZ.
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WEB RESOURCES
- YouTube~Watch Japan Foundation HQ, "Documentary: 55th Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition | Koki Tanaka, Mika Kuraya."
- Art-it.Asia~Read "Koki Tanaka 'The Center Cannot Hold'," Interview by Andrew Markle and Akira Rachi, ARTiT, Part 1.
- Art-it.Asia~Read "Koki Tanaka 'The Center Cannot Hold'," Interview by Andrew Markle and Akira Rachi, ARTiT, Part 2.
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General Description
Koki Tanaka was born in Tochigi, Japan in 1975, and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. He graduated with an MFA from Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan in 2005 and has participated in residency programs at Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2005-2006) and Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern Switzerland (2007). His work takes shape primarily as video and installation that explores the relationship between objects and actions. His videos record simple gestures performed with ordinary objects—a knife cutting vegetables, beer poured into a glass, the opening of an umbrella—in which seemingly “nothing happens.” Yet, through their repetitive composition and heightened attention to detail, Tanaka’s videos compel us to take notice of the mundane phenomena of daily life. Latent patterns and geometrical forms emerge out of Tanaka’s work, and otherwise ordinary objects are transformed, providing an epiphany of sorts from moments of everyday life.
Adapted from
Gabriel Ritter, DMA unpublished material.
Fun Facts
Archival Resources
(digitized/non-digitized)
Web Resources
- YouTube~Watch Japan Foundation HQ, "Documentary: 55th Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition | Koki Tanaka, Mika Kuraya."
- Art-it.Asia~Read "Koki Tanaka 'The Center Cannot Hold'," Interview by Andrew Markle and Akira Rachi, ARTiT, Part 1.
- Art-it.Asia~Read "Koki Tanaka 'The Center Cannot Hold'," Interview by Andrew Markle and Akira Rachi, ARTiT, Part 2.
Notes
DMA unpublished material = Gabriel Ritter, "Koki Tanaka Justification." File on TAZ.
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